Tropescilloscope: Character Development

A character changes over the course of a narrative. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bunny-Ears Lawyer Pyrrhic Victory Closed Circle Unusual Euphemism A Date with Rosie Palms Groin Attack Bloody Hilarious Military and Warfare Films Gender Flip Gainax Ending Punny Name Based on a True Story Anti-Villain All There in the Manual Missing Mom And the Adventure Continues Vacation Films Noodle Incident Match Cut Femme Fatale Morality Pet The Bully Soundtrack Dissonance Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Guns Akimbo Funny Background Event Beta Couple Men Are the Expendable Gender Film Noir Rasputinian Death Advertised Extra German Films No Ending Same Language Dub Rich Bitch Pragmatic Villainy Intergenerational Friendship Romantic False Lead Half the Man He Used to Be Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Your Head A-Splode Honor Before Reason Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Logo Joke Scenery Gorn Psycho for Hire Ripped from the Headlines Affably Evil The Stoic Meet Cute Curb-Stomp Battle Defrosting Ice Queen Really Gets Around Rule of Three Market-Based Title The '60s Screw the Rules, I Have Money! She Cleans Up Nicely Dies Wide Open Wham Shot Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Victoria's Secret Compartment Sports Stories Throwing Your Sword Always Works Posthumous Character Deconstruction Dirty Coward Up to Eleven Developing Doomed Characters Mighty Whitey Animated Credits Opening For the Evulz Canon Foreigner "The Reason You Suck" Speech Suddenly SHOUTING! Fanservice Extra Show Within a Show Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Big Brother Instinct Break the Haughty Cool Car Disney Villain Death Hidden Depths Corrupt Corporate Executive Badass Grandpa Cool Old Guy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Better to Die than Be Killed Dressing as the Enemy Worthy Opponent Death by Irony Important Haircut Jitter Cam Outrun the Fireball Double-Meaning Title I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Grey and Gray Morality The Great Depression NO INDOOR VOICE How We Got Here Spanner in the Works Reality Ensues Adaptation Expansion It's Personal Artistic License – Geography Race Lift B-Movie Fat Bastard Tagline Expository Hairstyle Change War Is Hell Animal Title Index The Musical Self-Deprecation Ironic Echo Face–Heel Turn Gratuitous English Daylight Horror The Stinger Corpsing Danny Peary Cult Movies List Retired Badass Genre Savvy Well-Intentioned Extremist Aluminum Christmas Trees Fatal Family Photo Bad "Bad Acting" Villain Song The Mole The Mafia Frame-Up Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Our Vampires Are Different Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Stepford Smiler Broken Pedestal Unreliable Narrator Grievous Bottley Harm The Lost Lenore Reality Has No Subtitles Bond One-Liner Artistic License – Biology Woman Scorned Double Entendre Fainting La Résistance There Is No Kill Like Overkill Not Using the "Z" Word Love at First Sight Intrepid Reporter Bowdlerise Break the Cutie What You Are in the Dark Hell Is That Noise Refuge in Audacity Bring My Brown Pants Attempted Rape Defiant to the End Shut Up, Hannibal! Domestic Abuse Dirty Old Man Manipulative Bastard A Father to His Men The '50s The Dreaded Badass Bookworm Black Comedy Chewing the Scenery Freeze-Frame Bonus Contrived Coincidence Distracted by the Sexy Dramatic Gun Cock A Minor Kidroduction Yandere Never My Fault Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Too Dumb to Live The Un-Reveal Jerk Jock Pet the Dog Monumental Damage Tempting Fate Evil Counterpart No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Animal Motifs Sanity Slippage Playing Gertrude Bond Villain Stupidity One-Man Army Becoming the Mask From Bad to Worse Crazy-Prepared Shower Scene Japanese Films Science Fiction Films You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bittersweet Ending Darkest Hour Bullying a Dragon Drugs Are Bad Catch-Phrase Last-Name Basis Eldritch Abomination Novelization Jump Scare Hero of Another Story You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Comically Missing the Point Due to the Dead Loophole Abuse Shirtless Scene Darker and Edgier Gold Digger Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Villain with Good Publicity Evil Brit Action Girl Documentary Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Destination Defenestration Artistic License – Gun Safety The Hero Extreme Doormat Large Ham Pretty Little Headshots Take a Third Option Bald of Evil Nothing Is Scarier The '70s Age Lift Mad Scientist Lighter and Softer Black Comedy Rape Informed Ability Obfuscating Stupidity Sassy Black Woman Artistic License – Physics Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Those Two Bad Guys The Faceless Alas, Poor Villain Gone Horribly Right Heel–Face Turn Video Credits Ass Shove Stealth Pun Mugging the Monster Cowboy Cop The Brute I Need a Freaking Drink Slasher Movie Sacrificial Lion Made of Iron Immune to Bullets Never Trust a Trailer Aside Glance Only in It for the Money Brick Joke Undying Loyalty Sequel Escalation Eyepatch of Power Serious Business Belligerent Sexual Tension Neck Snap Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Red Eyes, Take Warning The Big Guy Vitriolic Best Buds Dark Reprise Fourth Date Marriage Heterosexual Life-Partners Scenery Porn Damsel in Distress Humiliation Conga Dropped a Bridge on Him Mood Whiplash Left the Background Music On Wicked Cultured Motor Mouth Daddy's Girl Ms. Fanservice Here We Go Again! Word of God Death by Sex Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Heroes Want Redheads Offscreen Moment of Awesome Does Not Like Shoes Hero Antagonist Race Against the Clock Improbable Weapon User Artistic License – History Hong Kong Films She's Got Legs Mooks Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Smart Guy Horror Films Fire-Forged Friends Car Fu Psychological Thriller Took a Level in Jerkass Foregone Conclusion Cat Fight Instant Death Bullet Running Gag Protagonist Title Captain Obvious Friend to All Children Hate Sink Evil Is Hammy Children Are Innocent Made of Explodium Facial Horror Major Injury Underreaction Token Minority Earn Your Happy Ending Rule of Symbolism Calling the Old Man Out Disney Death Mr. Exposition Interrupted Suicide The Chessmaster Have a Gay Old Time Real Life Writes the Plot Black Dude Dies First Evil Sounds Deep Face Death with Dignity Rousing Speech Spared by the Adaptation Disguised in Drag Superhero Faux Affably Evil Did Not Get the Girl Ship Tease The Atoner Fun with Acronyms Not So Different Overly Long Gag Adaptation Name Change Kill 'em All Let's Get Dangerous! Bloodless Carnage Maybe Ever After Spiritual Successor Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Early-Bird Cameo Deliberately Monochrome Gory Discretion Shot Silent Movie Mundane Made Awesome Jerkass Has a Point Hypocrite Loads and Loads of Characters All Men Are Perverts The Starscream Would Hurt a Child The Ditz Red Right Hand Action Prologue In Medias Res Awesome, but Impractical Insistent Terminology Death by Adaptation One-Word Title Famous Last Words Only One Name Ominous Latin Chanting Not So Above It All Storming the Castle '80s Hair Would Hit a Girl Retirony Eagleland Ambiguous Disorder Hypocritical Humor Zombie Stories O.O.C. Is Serious Business Leitmotif Beware the Nice Ones Breaking the Fourth Wall Demoted to Extra A God Am I The Alleged Car Getting Crap Past the Radar Real Life Accidental Murder The Quiet One Author Appeal Sealed Evil in a Can My God, What Have I Done? Say My Name Kick the Dog Mistaken for Gay Covers Always Lie Moment Killer Australian Movies Auto Erotica Rule of Funny Obviously Evil Death Seeker Dumb Blonde Ghost Fiction "Shaggy Dog" Story Flashback Epic Fail Anachronism Stew Extremely Short Timespan Author Avatar Anti-Hero Meaningful Background Event Overprotective Dad Sci-Fi Horror The Dog Bites Back No OSHA Compliance Laser-Guided Karma Fiery Redhead Handicapped Badass BFG The Dragon Conspicuous CG Anachronic Order Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Those Two Guys Dual Wielding As Himself Happily Married Arc Words Pretty in Mink Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Hope Spot Once More, with Clarity! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Slasher Smile Fanservice Villain Protagonist Punch-Clock Villain Those Wacky Nazis Revenge Does This Remind You of Anything? Ambiguously Gay Bi the Way Hair-Trigger Temper Drives Like Crazy Pimped-Out Dress Even Evil Has Standards timeperiod Shipper on Deck Kubrick Stare May–December Romance Adults Are Useless Unwitting Instigator of Doom Nice Guy Reasonable Authority Figure Broken Bird Fan Disservice Beauty Is Never Tarnished Captain Ersatz Shown Their Work Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Canadian Movies After the End Rewatch Bonus Bloodier and Gorier Training Montage Fatal Flaw An Arm and a Leg Horror Comedy Action Survivor Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! You Have Failed Me Heel Realization Big-Bad Ensemble Names to Run Away from Really Fast Pragmatic Adaptation Setting Update Karmic Death Every Car Is a Pinto Anyone Can Die Tap on the Head Sexy Discretion Shot The Vamp folderlabel As You Know Wham Line Not Even Bothering with the Accent Chekhov's Gunman Dark Is Not Evil Cool Shades The Lancer Framing Device Be Careful What You Wish For Homage Fate Worse than Death Psychopathic Manchild Non-Indicative Name Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Manly Tears Freudian Excuse Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Eiffel Tower Effect The Film of the Book Cloudcuckoolander Genre Throwback Plucky Comic Relief All Just a Dream Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Black and Gray Morality Amoral Attorney Whole Plot Reference Adaptational Villainy Red Oni, Blue Oni An Aesop Mercy Kill Coming-of-Age Story Catapult Nightmare Only Known by Their Nickname Adaptational Badass Sinister Minister Knife Nut Jerk with a Heart of Gold Artistic License – Law Big Damn Heroes Babies Ever After Big Fancy House Fake Shemp Camera Abuse Older Than They Look Cassandra Truth Reality Is Unrealistic Reckless Gun Usage Slap-Slap-Kiss Boom, Headshot! Diabolus ex Machina Annoying Younger Sibling Anguished Declaration of Love "Awesome McCool" Name Adorkable Bottomless Magazines Politically Incorrect Villain Malevolent Masked Men Failed a Spot Check Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Big "NO!" Curse Cut Short Creative Closing Credits And I Must Scream Character Development Recycled IN SPACE! Oh, Crap! Epic Movie Drill Sergeant Nasty Evil Plan Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dramedy Paper-Thin Disguise Soft Glass Deus ex Machina The Stoner Cold-Blooded Torture Stealth Hi/Bye Plot Hole Biopic Big Applesauce Humans Are Bastards Twist Ending Black Best Friend Tranquil Fury What the Hell, Hero? Sadistic Choice Card-Carrying Villain Implacable Man Smug Snake Translation Convention Unusually Uninteresting Sight Adaptational Heroism Composite Character Taking You with Me Eye Scream Creepy Child Product Placement Bavarian Fire Drill Dark and Troubled Past Sole Survivor Easily Forgiven Peek-a-Boo Corpse A.I. Is a Crapshoot Leave the Camera Running Establishing Character Moment Crazy Jealous Guy Badass in a Nice Suit Bury Your Gays Spell My Name with an "S" Shout-Out Married to the Job Roger Ebert: Great Movies List As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Ace Gilligan Cut Arranged Marriage Serial Killer The Voiceless Adapted Out Riddle for the Ages No Antagonist Decoy Protagonist Scare Chord Hollywood Darkness Red Shirt Body Horror Evil-Detecting Dog Batman Gambit Neck Lift Dutch Angle Killed Mid-Sentence Hoist by His Own Petard Green-Eyed Monster Badass Normal Put on a Bus Kick the Son of a Bitch Call-Forward The Cavalry Retcon Red Herring Not What It Looks Like Big Eater Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Amusing Injuries Dark Action Girl Enemy Mine Male Gaze Chase Scene Public Domain Feature Films The Load Music Stories Meaningful Name Time Skip Laughing Mad Rape as Drama Get Out! Chekhov's Gun The Remake Brainless Beauty Male Frontal Nudity Take That! Badass Boast It Can Think Casting Gag Chekhov's Skill The Power of Love Exactly What It Says on the Tin Madness Mantra Slashed Throat Police are Useless 20 Minutes into the Future Lock and Load Montage MacGuffin Not Quite Dead Only a Flesh Wound Off-into-the-Distance Ending Skewed Priorities No Celebrities Were Harmed Arch-Enemy Villain Ball The Bad Guy Wins In the Back Pre-Mortem One-Liner Woman in White Christmas Movies Index Authority Equals Asskicking Bland-Name Product Foreshadowing It's All About Me I Did What I Had to Do Parental Neglect Heroic BSoD The Ghost Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Central Theme Ambiguous Ending Small Name, Big Ego Naïve Newcomer Blatant Lies Gorn Precision F-Strike Almost Kiss Dull Surprise Foil Russian Films Super Strength Bolivian Army Ending Wretched Hive Police Brutality Unspoken Plan Guarantee All There in the Script Parental Incest Empathic Environment Stalker with a Crush Book-Ends Evil Is Petty Evil Laugh True Companions Offscreen Teleportation Very Loosely Based on a True Story Visual Pun Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Light Is Not Good Never Found the Body Rule of Cool The Chick The X of Y Abusive Parents Accidental Misnaming Department of Redundancy Department Award-Bait Song Dramatic Irony Evil vs. Evil Mind Screw Big Bad Duumvirate Adult Fear Kids Are Cruel Bare Your Midriff Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Funny Foreigner Properly Paranoid Combat Pragmatist For Want of a Nail Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fish out of Water Ragtag Bunch of Misfits All for Nothing The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Redemption Equals Death Spiteful Spit Fingore Didn't Think This Through Deal with the Devil Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Works Set in World War II Jerkass Driven to Suicide Cluster F-Bomb Insult Backfire Villainous Breakdown Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Insane Troll Logic As the Good Book Says... Bad Boss Genre Shift Only Sane Man I'm a Humanitarian Disappeared Dad Faking the Dead Call-Back Actor Allusion The Place Apocalypse How Crucified Hero Shot Meaningful Echo Chiaroscuro Credits Gag Needs Wiki Magic Love Suspiciously Specific Denial Adaptation Dye-Job Stuff Blowing Up Drowning My Sorrows Silence Is Golden Fantasy Films My Beloved Smother Make It Look Like an Accident Heroic Sacrifice Death of a Child The Cameo Unresolved Sexual Tension Historical In-Joke Big Bad Wrong Genre Savvy Five-Man Band Greater-Scope Villain Leaning on the Fourth Wall Deadpan Snarker I Have Your Wife Bound and Gagged From Nobody to Nightmare Affectionate Parody Ax-Crazy Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Country Matters Manchild An Axe to Grind Determinator aka: The Determinator The '80s Despair Event Horizon Lampshade Hanging My Greatest Failure Villain Opening Scene And Starring "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Title Drop Brother–Sister Incest Four-Temperament Ensemble Cat Scare Straight Gay N-Word Privileges Historical Villain Upgrade Back from the Dead The Smurfette Principle Cool Old Lady Historical-Domain Character Mythology Gag Demonic Possession More Dakka Film Noir Index Idiot Ball Agony of the Feet Vomit Discretion Shot Totally Radical Thriller Hooker with a Heart of Gold British Films Poor Communication Kills I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Historical Hero Upgrade No Name Given Kill It with Fire Action Genre The Reveal Flipping the Bird Television Movie Index Final Girl Bilingual Bonus Obstructive Bureaucrat Toplessness from the Back Sequel Hook Actually Pretty Funny Ascended Extra The Casanova Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Betty and Veronica The Alcoholic Cain and Abel Asshole Victim Deliberate Values Dissonance Film Series He Who Fights Monsters Took a Level in Badass Crapsack World French Films Expy Redshirt Army Abhorrent Admirer Cruel and Unusual Death Celebrity Paradox In Name Only Vampire Fiction Sir Swears-a-Lot Air-Vent Passageway Your Cheating Heart The End... Or Is It? Dying Moment of Awesome Dissonant Serenity Bait-and-Switch Mama Bear Random Events Plot Truth in Television Good Is Not Nice Rated M for Manly Together in Death Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Hollywood Law Fantastic Racism World of Ham Trailers Always Spoil Pay Evil unto Evil Death Glare The Oner Dogged Nice Guy He Knows Too Much Room Full of Crazy Bar Brawl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Exact Words Continuity Nod Adaptation Distillation Disproportionate Retribution Taking the Bullet Papa Wolf Star-Crossed Lovers Blackmail Broken Aesop Henpecked Husband Romantic Comedy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Parental Substitute Stock Footage Index of Film Westerns Man on Fire Nice Hat Ungrateful Bastard All Girls Want Bad Boys Alpha Bitch Suspiciously Similar Substitute Determinator Off with His Head! Our Zombies Are Different Line-of-Sight Name Improbable Aiming Skills Karma Houdini Imagine Spot Irony Beard of Evil It Will Never Catch On Dwindling Party Mr. Fanservice The Hero Dies Not So Stoic "Well Done, Son!" Guy Naked People Are Funny Berserk Button Narrator Creator Cameo Eureka Moment The '90s Love Triangle Guile Hero Camp Gay Brutal Honesty Early Installment Weirdness Everyone Has Standards Armor-Piercing Question Alliterative Name Blood Knight Mexican Standoff Butt-Monkey Re-Cut Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Vomit Indiscretion Shot One Steve Limit Italian Films What Happened to the Mouse? Antagonist Title Shell-Shocked Veteran Downer Ending Costume Porn Badass Longcoat Depraved Bisexual Blood from the Mouth Cool Guns Stylistic Suck This Is Gonna Suck Martial Arts Movie Scary Black Man Improvised Weapon The Sociopath Parental Abandonment No-Sell Dirty Cop Mystery and Detective Films Knight Templar Adaptational Attractiveness You Killed My Father Artistic License – Military Smoking Is Cool